Fun fact: Canaan was voted both “Hardest Working” and “Most Likely to Open a Burrito Stand After Graduation” by his high school class.

Katsuda “Hiro” Hironori

University College London

Areas of interest: phonology, phonetics, morphology

Hobbies: table tennis, Japanese calligraphy

Fun fact: In 2011, Hiro visited UCLA for his first overseas trip. Now, he is very happy to be back here.

Minqi “Kiki” Liu

B.A., Peking University

Areas of interest: syntax, semantics, and language acquisition

Hobbies: swimming and fencing

Fun fact: The literal meaning of Kiki’s Chinese name is an “agile flag”.

Christine Prechtel

The Ohio State University

Areas of interest: phonetics, intonation, speech perception

Zhongshi “Andy” Xu

B.A., UCLA

Areas of interest: phonology, prosody-syntax interface

Hobbies: traveling, sketching, photography

Fun fact: Andy entered UCLA as an undeclared-major freshman four years ago. For the first two years Andy had his mind set on studying industrial design. During the last quarter of his second year, Andy applied for admission into the Design program at UCLA, was rejected, and decided to declare a major in Linguistics instead.

Zhenglong “Z.L.” Zhou

B.A., Swarthmore College

Areas of interest: Phonology, intonation

Hobbies: Poetry, singing, divination, photography

Fun fact: In undergrad, Z.L. led an a cappella that only sang non-American music.